Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde nicked in Sweden

THE PIRATE BAY CO-FOUNDER Peter Sunde has been arrested in Sweden, exactly eight years after the website's servers were raided, after having been on the run for two years.

Sunde was convicted of aiding copyright infringement in 2009, and was sentenced to a year in prison and a fine. His jail time was later reduced to eight months, but in 2012 Sunde failed to tip up at the Swedish prison where he was set to do his time, and he has been wanted by Interpol ever since.

However, Swedish police caught up with Sunde this weekend after raiding a farm in a rural part of the country near Malmö, exactly eight years after The Pirate Bay servers were raided. The arrest also came just days after Sunde's bid for a seat in the European Parliament as a Pirate Party candidate in Finland came to a disappointing end, with the party getting just 0.7 percent of the country's vote.

Spokeswoman for the Swedish national police Carolina Ekeus said that Sunde was arrested on Saturday, adding, "We have been looking for him since 2012. He was given eight months in jail so he has to serve his sentence."

According to Sunde's lawyer, Peter Althin, his client most likely will now be sent to prison to serve his eight month sentence, Torrentfreak reported.

Althin understandably was disappointed by the arrest, and Swedish media quoted him as saying, "[Sunde] is extremely talented and I still think that the judgment was wrong."